Phil Factor A Better Way of Installing and Updating Windows Packages A guest editorial for Simple-Talk. One of the most obvious drawbacks to Windows is the application update mechanism, or rather... 06 November 2014 3 min read
Tony Davis PASS Summit 14 Dispatches: Azure Machine Learning PASS Summit 14 Day 1 keynote and Joseph Sirosh and Sanjay Somi demo’d Azure Machine Learning (ML) and the drive... 05 November 2014 1 min read
Tony Davis PASS Summit 14 Dispatches: DocumentDB During the PASS Summit 14 keynote, TK “Ranga” Rengarajan mentioned briefly Microsoft’s DocumentDB, a new NoSQL database. I was hoping... 05 November 2014 3 min read
Tom It's your turn to pick the best of the worst Or should that be pick the worst of the worst? Good question because after holing up at Gower Gulch, eating... 04 November 2014 3 min read
Tom Things could be a lot worse than you think After glancing through the dozens of entries in the Best of the Worst DBA competition, Steve Jones and Grant Fritchey... 31 October 2014 2 min read
Melanie Townsend Review Kalen Delaney’s Hekaton Book Update: That’s a wrap! All the review copies available at the moment have been sent out. Remember, you can still... 28 October 2014 1 min read
Jonathan Allen The best piece of equipment you can take to a tech conference If you have some spare time and want to meet me for a beer at a conference we can spend... 27 October 2014 3 min read
Louis Davidson Why I am not going to PASS this year This is going to be one of my toughest non-technical posts ever. And the reason it will be difficult will... 25 October 2014 5 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 14 – Back To The Future Congratulations to Dimitrios Kalemis who won this week’s competition with: Hail, Starfleet Admirals! We who are about to use NoSQL... 24 October 2014 1 min read
Jonathan Hickford Tackling the problem of database version drift It is known as ‘database version drift’ or ‘database version creep’. For the best of reasons, the version of the... 23 October 2014 3 min read
Tony Davis To PASS Summit and Beyond In his recent, successful bid to win election to the PASS board, Grant Fritchey (@GFritchey) opened his campaign statement as... 23 October 2014 2 min read
Stephanie Herr A SQL Prompt Trick for SQL Demos I recently attended SQL Saturday in Pittsburgh. It was a great event and I was impressed with the presenters. We... 22 October 2014 4 min read
Matt Hilbert SQL Vs NoSQL – Win a Sombrero THE MEXICAN STANDOFF In my article, Does NoSQL = NoDBA? I asked who would win in the battle for dominance... 21 October 2014 2 min read
Tony Davis Source Code isn't sacred A recent, short article on O’Reilly.com, Before You Refactor suggests that if you think you need to rewrite code, you... 10 October 2014 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 13 – Lucky for Some What’s going on here? There appears to be a lad under cover, but what’s it all about? You have to... 10 October 2014 1 min read
Louis Davidson PASS Summit Attendance “Advice” Wow, it is fall again, and in a large percentage of the minds of SQL Community members, that means that... 07 October 2014 11 min read
Jonathan Allen Web page titles from URL Nothing wholly SQL Server-related this time but this is something that I have been meaning to write for ages. While... 26 September 2014 2 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 12: Bakers Dozen Less One What’s going on here? There appears to be a hand, but what’s it all about? You have to tell us,... 26 September 2014 1 min read
Phil Factor You Can’t Crowdsource Good Design More and more frequently, the chore of installing a new application is interrupted by the application asking you to allow... 26 September 2014 3 min read
Damon Armstrong Constants in a Common Assembly We were having a discussion about constants and an interesting issue came up. I’ve always known that when you use... 16 September 2014 1 min read
